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  • Letters From an American
    Don't Look Away — The Big Lie is Still Out There
    February 22, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Biden’s prospective attorney general, Merrick Garland, reaffirmed that the AG should be the lawyer for the people of the United States, not for any one individual.

  • Fight to Vote
    Revealed: US Spends Millions of Taxpayer Dollars on Ineffective Voting Restrictions
    July 23, 2020
    | Sam Levine

    Restrictive “voter identification” laws pushed by Republicans, and widely regarded to be ineffective and discriminatory, have cost taxpayers at least $36m in just a few states.

  • Democracy & Government
    Stealing America's Democracy, One Vote at a Time
    May 15, 2020
    Across the country, 25 states have passed restrictive voting laws since 2010. In this clip from the new documentary, Slay the Dragon, we learn what happened in North Carolina.
  • Moyers on Democracy
    Republicans Admit They Lose When Elections Are Fair and Free
    April 8, 2020
    Voting rights. The Republican Party “would rather try to keep people from voting than lose,” David Daley tells Bill. Daley is a reporter who has written extensively about gerrymandering and voting rights — and fired up a generation of activists fighting for free and fair elections.
  • Democracy & Government
    Trump's Judicial Nominee Defended NC's Voter Suppression Law
    October 20, 2017
    | Ari Berman
    Thomas Farr's nomination will move to the floor for a vote by the full Senate.
  • Democracy & Government
    Study Shows How Many in Wisconsin Were Blocked From Voting
    September 27, 2017
    | Ari Berman
    Trump won the state by 22,748 votes.
  • Democracy & Government
    Trump's Voter Suppression Team Is Playing the Long Game
    July 12, 2017
    | John Light
    Democrats are going to have to fight on multiple fronts if they hope to stop a GOP effort to restrict the vote.
  • Civil Liberties
    Trump’s Voter-Suppression Plans Are Backfiring
    July 6, 2017
    | Ari Berman
    In an unprecedented show of bipartisan resistance, 45 states are refusing to hand over private voter data to Kris Kobach.
  • Democracy & Government
    Kobach ‘Voter Fraud’ Commission Gets Fast Thumbs Down
    June 7, 2017
    | Miles Rapoport
    Lacking even the veneer of bipartisanship, the Kobach Commission represents an assault on basic voting rights.
  • Inequality
    Trump’s Voter Fraud Lies Will Lead to Huge Voter Suppression
    February 17, 2017
    | Ari Berman
    Twenty-one states are now considering new laws to make it harder to vote.


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